text: The absolute cost per share of a stock is a relatively meaningless number. You can divide a company into whatever number of shares you like, and that number can change over time (and does, when companies do stock splits or merges). If a company has a high price per share, it basically just means that they haven't done very many (possibly any) stock splits in the past, so there are relatively few shares of stock outstanding. If they were to split their stock 100:1, the shares would be worth $190 each but there would be 100 times as many of them, so the company would be worth the same amount of money.